These places are the best in Cebu when you talk about sumptuous food, whether served raw or cooked to your likings. The places are everywhere and their kitchens are the most sought-after areas of their turfs. Here are the 12 of the most interesting.

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Bantayan Island - The Top-Most Gorgeous Beaches in the 7 Popular Islands of Cebu

Located in Central Philippines at the northernmost tip of mainland Cebu, is a tropical island Eden, known as Bantayan Island. A little less than one hundred square miles in size, it's regarded as one of the most beautiful islands in the world because of its crystal clear ocean waters and an immaculately clean shoreline of powder-like white sands.

Omagieca Mangrove Garden

Ogtong Cave

Sunset in Santa Fe, Bantayan Island

It has one of the oldest churches in the country, built some 400 years ago during the Spanish colonization. As the Lenten season sets in, it becomes the center of religious commemoration of the Passion of Christ, participated in by the local folks and foreign tourists.

Omagieca Mangrove Garden

Bantayan Romantic Sunset

Seafoods Overload

The Food

Resorts on the island serve an array of Filipino, Thai, European, Japanese and American dishes. The most popular among this cuisine would be a selection of fresh sea foods sourced straight from the fishermen's catch of the day. Fishing being the main livelihood of the Bantayanons, one would typically see deliciously prepared giant lobsters, prawns, crabs, blue Marlin and salmon on the dining table.

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How to get there

The 3 Municipalities of Bantayan

Accessible from the bustling city of Cebu via a 3-hour leisurely car drive and an hour of a cool ferry boat ride, this island is made-up of three municipalities : Santa Fe, Madridejos and Bantayan. Around the neighboring provinces, Bantayan also enjoys the reputation of being the egg basket of the region as it produces and supplies Cebu, Negros, Panay and Leyte close to two million eggs a day. Among these three towns, it is Santa Fe which is bordered by white sands, although most of the coastal areas are blessed with the same grandeur and natural beauty.

Cebu is an island province. It is no wonder that ocean waters surround it, along with a flurry of smaller islands and shoals. Any one in the following list of beaches and resorts in the area can meet the expectations of a beachcomber in want of discovering and experiencing the wonders of Philippine nature.Read More

You talk of Cebu, you're talking beaches. I'd like to share with you a few of these seemingly pacific dreamlands to which I had been and enjoyed immensely their scenic beauty, natural cleanness of the seashore, the clear, aqua-tainted waters, the cool breeze, the glorious sunrises and romantic sunsets...Read More

These places are the best in Cebu when you talk about sumptuous food, whether served raw or cooked to your likings. The places are everywhere and their kitchens are the most sought-after areas of their turfs. Here are the 12 of the most interesting.

It's about that wild, edge-of-the-seat, suspenseful anticipation for the dealer to hit a card that will bust his hand on a black jack table. It's about that suggestively, sexy smile from a beautiful woman in a black, bare-back gown from across the room.